Dear Professors and Students, We would like to cordially invite you to attend the following UMDVS Lecture by PROFESSOR JOÃO CEZAR DE CASTRO ROCHA (UERJ/FAPERJ):   UMDVS LECTURE 2023 PROFESSOR JOÃO CEZAR DE CASTRO ROCHA (UERJ/FAPERJ) Date: December 5, 2023 Time: 16:00 Venue: E4-G053 – University of Macau Poetics of Emulation and Reading Across Cultures: Towards a Non-Hegemonic Theoretical Framework   The theoretical framework proposed in this lecture advances the concepts of Shakespearean cultures and poetics of emulation. In both cases, I seek to expand on the challenge of mimesis, made even keener by the emergence of the world-system in the modern era. Shakespearean cultures, in general, grew out of non-hegemonic environments; thus, the poetics of emulation tends to be […]

Dear Professors and Students, We would like to cordially invite you to attend the following Lecture and Documentary by PROFESSOR ZHANG LONGXI (CUHK/ Hunan Normal University).   PROFESSOR ZHANG LONGXI (CUHK/ Hunan Normal University) Date: December 6, 2023 Time: 3:00pm Venue: E4-G053 – University of Macau COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: BETWEEN WORLDS Comparative literature was established in 19th-century Europe with its disciplinary emphasis on the command of different languages and literatures beyond the limitations of nationalist tendencies and their correlative monolingualism. However, until recently, the languages and literatures in the purview of comparative literature were all European, making the discipline almost inevitably Eurocentric. It is in our time with an increasingly strong sense of globalization and the necessity of transcending Eurocentrism that comparative […]

Dear Professors and Students,   We are most pleased to invite all to attend the following Seminar by Prof. Quintino Lopes, from the Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Universidade de Évora / IN2PAST.   BIO Professor Quintino Lopes is a Principal Investigator of the FCT-funded R&D team project: "Phonetics Laboratory: Coimbra - Harvard. Rethinking 20th-century scientific centres and peripheries" (2022.06811.PTDC). The value of this research, which brings scientific developments in the field of Experimental Phonetics during the 20th century into the mainstream of the History of Science, is demonstrated by the recognition granted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS) with a one-day symposium entitled "Armando de Lacerda: a pioneer of Experimental Phonetics". The guest speaker's […]